The sophistication of wooden weapons found at Schöningen in central Germany have revolutionized ideas about Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, man living some 300,000 years ago. An inventory from the site, which was excavated in the late 1990s, has now revealed how good they were at making other wooden tools. The 187 finds reveal a broad spectrum of woodworking techniques, the group led by Dirk Leder of the Lower Saxony monuments office report in the US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The finds, which were made in an open-cast lignite mine, include at least 20 h…